He acknowledged a $229.14 allegation on his Chase Visa fabricated at a Rite Aid abundance in Elkridge, Md., about a three-hour drive from his home in Allen Township.

He told me he’s never been to Elkridge and on the day of the acquirement aftermost June, he was accepting eye anaplasty in Bethlehem. He said the allegation was fraudulent, but Chase banned to aish it from his bill.

“I couldn’t accept been there,” he said.

That’s what he told Chase on his altercation form. He alike listed the name and buzz cardinal of his physician in case Chase bare verification.

He additionally acclaimed the signature on the acclaim agenda cancellation wasn’t his. The receipt, which he acquired from Chase, didn’t announce what was purchased.

Chase removed the allegation from his annual while it investigated, Williams said. It was put aback on his annual in October.

He told me he alleged the Chase adumbrative he had been ambidextrous with alert in October and several added times, too, admitting he didn’t abode bottomward the dates, to ask why he was accepted to pay the charge.

Williams said those calls were not alternate and he aing heard from Chase aback he got a letter in backward January.

Carroll Williams of Allen Township said Chase banned to aish a affected acquirement that was fabricated on his acclaim agenda at a abundance in Maryland on the aforementioned day he was accepting eye anaplasty in Bethlehem. He got a acquittance afterwards the Watchdog intervened.

Carroll Williams of Allen Township said Chase banned to aish a affected acquirement that was fabricated on his acclaim agenda at a abundance in Maryland on the aforementioned day he was accepting eye anaplasty in Bethlehem. He got a acquittance afterwards the Watchdog intervened. (PAUL MUSCHICK/THE MORNING CALL)

“Based on our analysis and the advice accessible to us, we accede the allegation valid,” a Chase chump annual specialist wrote. “The acknowledged bulk will abide on your annual and it will be included in your annual balance.”

The letter acicular to the age of the acknowledged claim.

“Since a cogent bulk of time has anesthetized aback the June 2016 date of the charge, the merchant isn’t beneath any obligation to accommodate a acclaim to your account,” Chase wrote. “We contacted the merchant to appeal a acclaim for your annual and, unfortunately, they did not annual our request.”

Williams told me there was no adjournment on his end. He said he acknowledged the acquirement promptly and approved extensive Chase afterwards it reinstated the charge, but no one there got aback to him.

He hadn’t alleged Rite Aid, assertive it was Chase he should accord with.

“While we accept this to be an abandoned incident, we are demography it actual seriously, and will assignment with our acclaim agenda processor to anticipate agnate occurrences in the future,” Rite Aid said in a statement.

“We strive to bear a above chump acquaintance and in an accomplishment to annihilate added aggravation for him, we accept already accomplished out to the chump to alike a abounding refund,” Rite Aid said. “We aboveboard apologize for the aggravation Mr. Williams has experienced.”

Williams isn’t abiding if Chase contacted his physician to verify he had anaplasty on the day of the acknowledged purchase. He said a Chase adumbrative he batten with afterwards accepting the January bounce letter told him there weren’t any addendum in his book about that. He said his physician’s appointment told him there weren’t any addendum in his book there, either, advertence whether anyone there had been contacted.

Williams was afraid at how his affirmation was handled, as he had no botheration accepting antecedent crooked accuse removed.

“This is the aboriginal time I’ve been stung,” he said. “Before, they’ve been actual cooperative.”

The agenda acclimated to accomplish the acquirement at Rite Aid was an earlier appearance that did not accept a computer chip. Those cards are added affected to artifice because advice is stored on the alluring band on the back.

If his agenda was acclimated at a business that suffered a abstracts aperture or area a bribery accessory was hidden on a agenda reader, advice could accept been baseborn and acclimated to actualize a affected card.

The dent cards alien in contempo years are advised to anticipate counterfeiting. Williams said the backup agenda Chase beatific him has a chip.

This blazon of bearings is why Williams reviews his acclaim agenda annual band by band every month.